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e successfully harvested from close to Solomon Island reefs throughout the country.Experimental spat collections have been made from Guadalcanal to Shortland Islands andmost regions had broadly similar spatfalls. Of the areas where high collections are mostfrequent, Western Province (see Figure 3 for locations) stands out, though even here theyield per spat collector can be low (an average of 1-12 per collector deployment) and isvariable between locations and years.ChoiseulManning StraightShortlandIslandsKiaWaghinaWesternSanta IsabelGizoNoroMarovoLagoonRussellIsalndslHoniaraGuadalcanalMalaita100 kmMakiraFigure 3. Map of Solomon Islands marked with provinces and main locations referred toin the text. The scale bar represents 100 km.A significant issue in Solomon Islands has proved to be the high predation on young spat,which led the experimental pearl farm to amend the traditional protocols for spatcollection and grow-out. Rather than leaving spat on collectors until they reach a sizelarge enough for hanging from grow-out line, as dine in French Polynesia, spat wereharvested from collectors at a small size (~10 mm) and an intermediate grow-out phasewas introduced until they reached the size for transfer to hanging culture. The labour costof this extra operation may be offset by the low labour costs in Solomon Islands (US$ 5-7per day for semi-skilled workers compared to US$ 50 per day in Tahiti – see latersections). Once established, however, grow-out of oysters can be rapid at SolomonIslands, with spat able to reach 100-120 mm in one year. This is six months faster than istypical of atoll farms in Cook Islands. Preparing the report summarising the informationon black-lip pearl oysters allowed Patrick Mesia from the Aquaculture section of MFMR7
to work alongside WorldFish science staff and gain experience and confidence withcontributing to written reports.3.3 Water TemperatureSolomon Islands’ proximity to the equator and consistently high seawater temperatures(Appendix III) may in part be the cause of the rapid growth of black-lip pearl oyster.Figure 4 shows that Solomon Islands is the most northerly site in the region to growblack-lip pearls, and that temperatures tend to be slightly higher than other black pearlareas (Fiji, Cook Islands and French Polynesia). The white-lip pearl oyster, which tendsto prefer warmer water than the black-lip, may also be an appropriate species choice forthis location.Temperature ranges for Solomon Islands and established pearling countries are shown inTable 1. The warm, stable temperatures of Solomon Islands are similar to white-lipfarming regions at Northern Queensland/Torres Straight and PNG, and only slightlywarmer than black-lip farms at Cook Islands. Environmentally, Solomon Islands shouldbe suited to the culture of both black and white-lip pearl oysters.Table 1. Approximate temperatures of Solomon Island waters and for pearl-producingregions. Where a range of values is given data are available across a latitudinal range.Location Minimum Maximum RangeSolomon Is 27-28 29-30 2Northern Cook Is 27 29 2Fiji 24-27 28-29 2-4PNG 26-28 30 2-4French Polynesia 24-27 27-29 2-3NW Australia 24-25 28-30 4-5Torres Straight 26 29 3Vanuatu 24-27 28-30 3-43.4 White-lipped pearl oyster availabilityUnlike black-lip pearl oyster, white-lip is not commercially taken as spat. Instead amixture of harvested young adult shell and hatchery stock are used. Anecdotal reports ofhealthy populations of gold-lip pearl oysters at sites around Solomon Islands needed to beassessed and as part of this project a comprehensive survey was planned to assess stocks.3.5 The national white-lip surveyThe national white-lip survey was undertaken jointly by WorldFish Center and MFMR(see Appendix IV) and had four elements:8
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